Saturday, December 10, 2005

More on Tutankhamun at Fort Lauderdale

This overview of the exhibition includes quotes from David Silverman, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Pennsylvania, and chief curator of the show, on the subject of differences between the Fort Lauderdale and LACMA approaches:
" 'What you see in Florida will be very different from the museum in Los Angeles,' Silverman says, explaining that the 5,000 additional square feet offered by the Museum of Art gave the tomb and burial gallery more space for additional photographs by Harry Burton, who accompanied Carter on his 1922 expedition. It also provided the opportunity to spotlight the differences between Tut and his father, Akhenaten.'In the LACMA version, the emphasis on Akhenaten is more about the changes he implemented in religion,' says Silverman about the king's conversion of Egypt to worship of a single deity, the sun-disk Aten."'n Fort Lauderdale, we'll have a colossal figure at one end of the gallery that's Akhenaten, and on the other, we'll have the torso of King Tut. It's made of wood and covered in stucco and plaster. It's very human-looking, especially compared to the huge statue of his father, which was meant to show power.'
See the above URL on the SouthFlorida.com website for the full article.

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